When someone uses a tool and surrenders their decision making power to the tool, shouldn't they be the ones solely responsible?
The liability culture only gives lawyers more money and depresses innovation. Responsibility is a thing.
I think it's really, really blurry.
I think the mom's reaction of "ChatGPT killed my son" is ridiculous: no, your son killed himself. ChatGPT facilitated it, based on questions it was asked by your son, but your son did it. And it sounds like he even tried to get a reaction out of you by "showing" you the rope marks on his neck, but you didn't pay attention. I bet you feel guilty about that. I would too, in your position. But foisting your responsibility onto a computer program is not the way to deal with it. (Not placing blame here; everybody misses things, and no one is "on" 100% of the time.)
> Responsibility is a thing.
Does OpenAI (etc.) have a responsibility to reduce the risk of people using their products in ways like this? Legally, maybe not, but I would argue that they absolutely have a moral and ethical responsibility to do so. Hell, this was pretty basic ethics taught in my engineering classes from 25 years ago. Based on the chat excerpts NYT reprinted, it seems like these conversations should have tripped a system prompt that either cut off the conversations entirely, or notified someone that something was very, very wrong.
Why not? I’m not trying to inflame this further, I’m genuinely interested in your logic for this statement.
> Empathy like all emotions require effort and cognitive load, and without things being mutual you will eventually slowly become drained, bitter and resentful because of empathy fatigue.
Do you have a source study or is this anecdotal, or speculative? Again, genuinely interested, as it’s a claim I see often, but haven’t been able to pin down.
(While attempting not to virtue-signal) I personally find it easier to empathize with people I don’t know, often, which is why I’m interested. I don’t expect mutual empathy from someone who doesn’t know who I am.
Equally, I try not to consume much news media, as the ‘drain’ I experience feels as though it comes from a place of empathy when I see sad things. So I think I experience a version of what you’re suggesting, and I’m interested in why our language is quite oppositional despite this.